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The processing and storage of critical data in large-scale cloud networks necessitate the need for scalable security solutions. It has been shown that deploying all possible security measures incurs a cost on performance by using up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ankur Chowdhary , Sailik Sengupta , Dijiang Huang , Subbarao Kambhampati

Moving Target Defense (MTD) is a proactive security mechanism which changes the attack surface aiming to confuse attackers. Cloud computing leverages MTD techniques to enhance cloud security posture against cyber threats. While many MTD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hooman Alavizadeh , Samin Aref , Dong Seong Kim , Julian Jang-Jaccard

Ransomware has remained one of the most notorious threats in the cybersecurity field. Moving Target Defense (MTD) has been proposed as a novel paradigm for proactive defense. Although various approaches leverage MTD, few of them rely on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jan von der Assen , Alberto Huertas Celdrán , Rinor Sefa , Gérôme Bovet , Burkhard Stiller

Data attacks on meter measurements in the power grid can lead to errors in state estimation. This paper presents a new data attack model where an adversary produces changes in state estimation despite failing bad-data detection checks. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

Modern urban railways extensively use computerized sensing and control technologies to achieve safe, reliable, and well-timed operations. However, the use of these technologies may provide a convenient leverage to cyber-attackers who have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Teo Zhan Teng , Rui Tan , David K. Y. Yau

Modern advances in sensor, computing, and communication technologies enable various smart grid applications. The heavy dependence on communication technology has highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to false data injection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Xiangyu Niu Jiangnan Li , Jinyuan Sun

Real time operation of the power grid and synchronism of its different elements require accurate estimation of its state variables. Errors in state estimation will lead to sub-optimal Optimal Power Flow (OPF) solutions and subsequent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

Modern electric power grid, known as the Smart Grid, has fast transformed the isolated and centrally controlled power system to a fast and massively connected cyber-physical system that benefits from the revolutions happening in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Haftu Tasew Reda , Adnan Anwar , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Zahir Tari

Large scale cloud networks consist of distributed networking and computing elements that process critical information and thus security is a key requirement for any environment. Unfortunately, assessing the security state of such networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ankur Chowdhary , Sailik Sengupta , Adel Alshamrani , Dijiang Huang , Abdulhakim Sabur

This article considers the design and analysis of multiple moving target defenses for recognizing and isolating attacks on cyber-physical systems. We consider attackers who perform integrity attacks on a set of sensors and actuators in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Paul Griffioen , Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

The proliferation of UAVs has enabled a wide range of mission-critical applications and is becoming a cornerstone of low-altitude networks, supporting smart cities, emergency response, and more. However, the open wireless environment,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yuyang Zhou , Guang Cheng , Kang Du , Zihan Chen , Tian Qin , Yuyu Zhao

With the proliferation of smart devices and revolutions in communications, electrical distribution systems are gradually shifting from passive, manually-operated and inflexible ones, to a massively interconnected cyber-physical smart grid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

With the boom of edge intelligence, its vulnerability to adversarial attacks becomes an urgent problem. The so-called adversarial example can fool a deep learning model on the edge node to misclassify. Due to the property of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Yaguan Qian , Qiqi Shao , Jiamin Wang , Xiang Lin , Yankai Guo , Zhaoquan Gu , Bin Wang , Chunming Wu

In the recent years cyberattacks to smart grids are becoming more frequent Among the many malicious activities that can be launched against smart grids False Data Injection FDI attacks have raised significant concerns from both academia and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Muhammad Irfan , Alireza Sadighian , Adeen Tanveer , Shaikha J. Al-Naimi , Gabriele Oligeri

We provide methods to prevent line failures in the power grid caused by a newly revealed MAnipulation of Demand (MAD) attacks via an IoT botnet of high-wattage devices. In particular, we develop two algorithms named Securing Additional…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Saleh Soltan , Prateek Mittal , H. Vincent Poor

The threats posed by evolving cyberattacks have led to increased research related to software systems that can self-protect. One topic in this domain is Moving Target Defense (MTD), which changes software characteristics in the protected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Ryan Liu , Ladan Tahvildari

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are fundamental to the Internet of Things (IoT) framework in future wireless networks, involving the connection of a vast number of devices with sporadic transmission patterns. Traditional device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xinjue Wang , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

In this paper, we consider a hierarchical control based DC microgrid (DCmG) equipped with unknown input observer (UIO) based detectors, where the potential false data injection (FDI) attacks and the distributed countermeasure are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Mengxiang Liu , Peng Cheng , Chengcheng Zhao , Ruilong Deng , Wenhai Wang , Jiming Chen

This paper studies false data injection (FDI) attacks against phasor measurement units (PMUs). As compared to the conventional bad data detector (BDD), an enhanced BDD utilizing the effect of zero injection buses is proposed. Feasible…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhigang Chu , Jiazi Zhang , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

The number of installed remote terminal units (RTU) is on the rise, increasing the observability and control of the power system. RTUs enable sending data to and receiving data from a control center in the power system. A distribution grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Milad Beikbabaei , Ali Mehrizi-Sani